STDs on the Rise

STDs on the Rise

Monday, October 2, 2017

CDC

From the CDC Newsroom: "September 26, 2017 – STDs at record high, threatening the health of millions of Americans. New CDC data for three nationally reported STDs – chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis—reveal more than 2 million cases were diagnosed in 2016. CDC estimates that closer to 20 million infections occur annually."

"The majority of these diagnoses (1.6 million) were cases of chlamydia. There were also 470,000 gonorrhea cases and almost 28,000 cases of primary and secondary syphilis – the most infectious stages of the disease. While young people, particularly young women aged 15-24, continue to bear the greatest burden of STDs, surges in syphilis and gonorrhea are increasingly affecting new populations."

Burden of syphilis highest among men, particularly gay and bisexual men